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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-33898 EUVD-2026-16490GHSA-453r-g2pg-cxxqGO-2026-4879

Local Incus UI web server vulnerable to nuthentication bypass

Published Mar 26, 2026 · Updated Mar 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, the web server spawned by `incus webui` incorrectly validates the authentication token such that an invalid value will be accepted. `incus webui` runs a local web server on a random localhost port. For authentication, it provides the user with a URL containing an authentication token. When accessed with that token, Incus creates a cookie persisting that token without needing to include it in subsequent HTTP requests. While the Incus client correctly validates the value of the cookie, it does not correctly validate the token when passed int the URL.
This allows for an attacker able to locate and talk to the temporary web server on localhost to have as much access to Incus as the user who ran `incus webui`. This can lead to privilege escalation by another local user or an access to the user's Incus instances and possibly system resources by a remote attack able to trick the local user into interacting with the Incus UI web server. Version 6.23.0 patches the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc incus < 6.23.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 incus 7.0.0-1 —
Debian 13 incus No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 incus No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed incus 6.23-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10450-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lxc/incus all versions — GO-2026-4879
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6 < 6.23.0 6.23.0 GO-2026-4879
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6/cmd/incus < 6.23.0 6.23.0 GHSA-453r-g2pg-cxxq

Advisories 2

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